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SAFE Director Discusses Media Representation of Trafficking with Society of Professional Journalists

November 17, 2020 The SAFE Center Director participated in an “ICTalk” with the Society of Professional Journalists to highlight...

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SAFE Center Co-Hosts Virtual Human Trafficking Training for Health Care Providers

November 12, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EST The SAFE Center will join the Maryland Hospital Association, the Maryland Human...

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SAFE Center Joins National Organizations in Opposing Changes to the USCIS Policy Manual

On August, 14, 2020 the SAFE Center for Human Trafficking Survivors joined over 70 national, state, and local advocacy...

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SAFE Center Director Moderates Trafficking Expert Panel Hosted by International Association of Women Judges

July 22, 2020  In recognition of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30, the International Association of...

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SAFE Center Director Collaborates with Leaders of Israeli Anti-Trafficking Coordination

June 25, 2020 Over 1,400 audience members participated in the Embassy of Israel and Jewish Women International’s virtual conversation,...

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UMD SAFE Center Team Statement on Racial Injustice

June 3, 2020 Our team at the University of Maryland SAFE Center shares in the grief and pain of...

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Our Response to COVID-19

March 19, 2020 At the University of Maryland SAFE Center, we recognize the trying times we are facing as...

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Steptoe & Johnson, LLP Honors SAFE Center at International Women’s Day Event

March 8, 2020 In honor of International Women’s Day, the Washington D.C.-based international law firm Steptoe and Johnson LLP,...

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SAFE Center Provides Human Trafficking Webinar Presentation to American Trauma Society

March 2, 2020 The SAFE Center’s Director of Clinical Services Rosa “Delmy” Alvayero, and Research and Program Coordinator Sophie...

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SAFE Center Director Speaks at International Interfaith Conference in Abu Dhabi as “Voice of Human Fraternity” for Work Combating Human Trafficking

February 4, 2020 Susan Esserman, Founder and Director of the SAFE Center, was invited to address the international interfaith...

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UMD SAFE Center Team Statement on Racial Injustice

The UMD SAFE Center decries the structural racism that remains as a toxic legacy of our country’s history and permeates our society today, and we are working to ensure that we are an actively anti-racist institution.